Health and wellness should be 100% the goal of vibrant longevity. AND if someone stays healthy and well they will look TRULY look their best at any age. However, the cultural nonsense swirling around women and aging just keeps piling up. Jane Fonda at the Emmys; was she bad-ass unwilling to look 79 or was she ridiculous trying to look 29? 
If you are alive you are aging. And isn’t that a good thing? To be blunt – the option is death. So why do we celebrate youth and beauty and shun aging, Fear of death? That is a legitimate reason. But a cosmetic procedure doesn’t make you younger or further from the end of life, it just makes you appear younger. This illusion can do wonders for the psyche and that is no small thing, but the truth of biological aging is what it is.
On the World Health Organization website there is a listing of stereotypes regarding aging.
“Stereo Type #4:
OLDER WOMEN HAVE LESS VALUE THAN YOUNGER WOMEN
People often equate women’s worth with beauty, youth and the ability to have children. The role older women play in their families and communities, caring for their partners, parents, children and grandchildren is often overlooked. In most countries, women tend to be the family caregivers. Many take care of more than one generation. These women are often themselves at advanced ages. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa, 20% of rural women aged 60 and older are the main carers for their grandchildren.”
Soon, the world will have more older people than children
Within the next five years, for the first time in human history, the number of adults aged 65 and over will outnumber children under the age of 5. By 2050, these older adults will outnumber children under the age of 14.
Are attitudes changing? Sort of.
Allure Magazine ‘s editor, Michelle Lee, announced in the September 2017 issue titled “The End of Anti-Aging” that the magazine would no longer use the term and calls upon the beauty industry to do the same. She acknowledges that it won’t be quick or easy, but we have to start somewhere to, in her words, “celebrate the beauty in all ages”. 
Jamie Lee Curtis wrote in her article for the Huff Post Anti-Anti :
“We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition. All of us, if we are lucky enough to make it through this hard life into older adulthood.
Join the beat. Try to discourage your loved ones from falling prey to this system of dissatisfaction. Men, honor your women and girls. Tell them that they are beautiful and show them that you mean it. Pattern your behavior so that young men can learn about what are and are not appropriate ways to talk about women. There are plenty of things to be anti about as a family. Let’s try to stop aging as being one of them. “
The more we celebrate every individual at every age the better a culture we have.
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Health and wellness should be 100% the goal of vibrant longevity. AND if someone stays healthy and well they will look TRULY look their best at any age. However, the cultural nonsense swirling around women and aging just keeps piling up.
If you are alive you are aging. And isn’t that a good thing? To be blunt – the option is death. So why do we celebrate youth and beauty and shun aging, Fear of death? That is a legitimate reason. But a cosmetic procedure doesn’t make you younger or further from the end of life it just makes you appear younger. This illusion can do wonders for the psyche and that is no small thing, but the truth of biological aging is what it is.
On the World Health Organization website there is a listing of stereotypes regarding aging.
“Stereo Type #4:
OLDER WOMEN HAVE LESS VALUE THAN YOUNGER WOMEN
People often equate women’s worth with beauty, youth and the ability to have children. The role older women play in their families and communities, caring for their partners, parents, children and grandchildren is often overlooked. In most countries, women tend to be the family caregivers. Many take care of more than one generation. These women are often themselves at advanced ages. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa, 20% of rural women aged 60 and older are the main carers for their grandchildren.”
Soon, the world will have more older people than children
Within the next five years, for the first time in human history, the number of adults aged 65 and over will outnumber children under the age of 5. By 2050, these older adults will outnumber children under the age of 14.
Are attitudes changing? Sort of.
Allure Magazine ‘s editor, Michelle Lee, announced in the September 2017 issue titled “The End of Anti-Aging” that the magazine would no longer use the term and calls upon the beauty industry to do the same. She acknowledges that it won’t be quick or easy, but we have to start somewhere to, in her words, “celebrate the beauty in all ages”.
Jamie Lee Curtis wrote in her article for the Huff Post Anti-Anti, that “We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition. All of us, if we are lucky enough to make it through this hard life into older adulthood.
Join the beat. Try to discourage your loved ones from falling prey to this system of dissatisfaction. Men, honor your women and girls. Tell them that they are beautiful and show them that you mean it. Pattern your behavior so that young men can learn about what are and are not appropriate ways to talk about women. There are plenty of things to be anti about as a family. Let’s try to stop aging as being one of them. “
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